{"id":1443,"date":"2020-04-10T04:17:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T04:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/?p=1443"},"modified":"2020-04-10T04:17:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T04:17:46","slug":"it-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/2020\/04\/10\/it-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"IT IS FINISHED!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jn 19:30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, \u201cIt is finished.\u201d  With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.<\/p>\n<p>In Aramaic, he said,\u201dTetelestai!\u201d.<br \/>\nFrom the Strong\u2019s Greek dictionary,it means ; to end, i.e. complete, execute, conclude, discharge (a debt):&#8211;accomplish, make an end, expire, finish.<\/p>\n<p>The Law is fulfilled as never before, nor since, in His &#8220;obedience unto death, even the death of the cross&#8221;; Messianic prophecy is accomplished; Redemption is completed; &#8220;He hath finished the transgression, and made reconciliation for iniquity, and brought in everlasting righteousness, and sealed up the vision and prophecy, and anointed a holy of holies&#8221;; He has inaugurated the kingdom of God and given birth to a new world. -JF Brown<\/p>\n<p>Jesus\u2019 came to do the will of the father, and he completely and successfully finished his whole assignment.<br \/>\nNo more work is to be done to fulfill the righteous requirement for the redemption of mankind to God.<\/p>\n<p>The forgiveness of sins was not done partially,that there remains some part we have to fulfill,but it was done to full. Nothing else was left.<\/p>\n<p>Our part is only to accept the free gift of salvation by simply believing in our hearts confessing of our mouths that Jesus is Lord, an then we are saved. <\/p>\n<p>Further reading:<br \/>\nLuke 12:50<br \/>\nJohn 4:34<br \/>\nJohn 17:4<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffcBlessed Day\ud83d\ude4f\ud83c\udffc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jn 19:30 When he had received the drink, Jesus said, \u201cIt is finished.\u201d With that, he bowed his head and gave up his spirit. In Aramaic, he said,\u201dTetelestai!\u201d. From the Strong\u2019s Greek dictionary,it means ; to end, i.e. complete, execute, conclude, discharge (a debt):&#8211;accomplish, make an end, expire, finish. The Law is fulfilled as never&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1445,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1443\/revisions\/1445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastoralcarecenter.org\/newsletter\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}